Same house

Last year for her 84th birthday my sister and I decided to take my mother back to her place of birth, Romsey in Hampshire, where she had spent many happy years as a child. She wanted to revisit the house where she had lived and other favourite old haunts. We arrived in Romsey at lunch time and went for some lunch in a pretty place near the car park. Next to the cafe was a very small museum of local history which we thought Mum would find interesting so we popped in there after lunch. On our way out we spoke to the attendant and explained to her the purpose of our visit and that we were about to go and try to locate her old house. The attendant seemed interested and asked Mum where she had lived. To our amazement we discovered that the attendant lived in the very same house, Norfolk House, that my mother had lived in 65years previously.